River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-03-03
SPIRIT OF THE NEWS.

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Some dairymen we know of are saw
ing fodder by givingthe COWS artifcially
warmed water. The world ..do move .
Ella Wheeler Wilcox is goins. to
branch out as a dramatist 1t Is said
that she is engaged Ia preparing the
book for a new American opera
Mgr. Di Rende. the Papal Nuncio at
Paris. who is to don the red hat next
month. will be the Youngest of the
Cardinals, beng only 80 years old.
Three young women have started a
new review in Rome. with the object of
turning Italian women to seek active
life, rather than the seclusion of the
convent.
Mrs. Gen. Grant will spend the great
er portion of the Lenten season in Wash
ington dividing her time between the
homes of Senator Stanford and Gen
Beale.
The late DIR. George Rigg was the
first Roman Catholic Bishop of Duukeld,
Scotland. after the restoration of the
hierarchy there. The See had been
vacant for s93 years.
Prince Nicholas of Mingrelia is be-
lieved to have the inside track for the
Bulgarian throne, ana Is already MAX
ing a preparatory disposition of his
affairs at home and Tiflis.
Miss May Mol OF Creston, Ia. won
the prize offered by the Gazette to the
first lady who would take off her hat at
the opera-house and keep it off May
Aoll' : tribe increase,
Mrs. Pendleton cambridge. the daugh-
ter Of President Zach Taylor, was in
heryouthful days Belle in Washington.
where she was known as Miss Bette
She is now visiting friends at the Ma
tional Capital.
Mrs. j. w. Smith of Orange, y. J.
during the last year rode 2.643 miles
upon tIicyle. 2,22S Of which were
made upon tandem tricyle with her
husband and AS miles alone upon a
single tricyle.
Tony Barrios. SON of the late Presi-
dent of Guatemala. i a student at West
Point, aud Young Zarala. son of the
man who overthrow and caused the
death Of President Barrios. is also at
WeS tPoint and his classmatc,
Miss Title May Forney. the Youngest
daughter of the late Col. John W. For
ncy. is now regular member of the
staff Of a Philadelphia society journal
known Is leisure Hours, She is a
bright and trenchant writer.
Baltimore Is about to do a sensible
thing in doing away with the massive
enhlem- Of wo which women consider
i necessary 10 carry around with them.
The world needs al the brightness it
can get, and mourning Is in the heart
The Rev. Sylvanus Stall of Lancaster.
editor of the Lutheran Year Book. i, or
ganizing "a party of ten men to make a
bicycle tour through NORWAY and
Sweden. They expect To start about
the lst Of June and be absent Ten weeks
Foster Dewey, formerly private see
rotary Of William NJ Tweed. who died
a few days ago in New York. wrote his
own will half an hour before his death.
He left 100000, and it required Just
five lines to dispose of il and name the
executors.
Mrs. Laura p. Tucker, aged %. died
last Sunday at Putnam. Conn. She
was a niece of John Brown Of Ossa-
wattomie, whom she remembered well.
and concerning whom she often related
personal incidents. She was buried at
Port Jarvis, n. Y.
J. Simpson Africa, Pennsylyania's
Secretary of State, has for private see
rotary Mr.. J. W. Greenland Thus the
exigencies Of politics in the pig-iron
State have united under one tent rep
representative of ..Greeuland's icy
mountains and '.Afric's sunny foun-
tains."
4 citizen VINO knows Wall street in
forms us that women are vegy popular
as clerks and copyists In that neighbor-
hood. because their employers are not
afraid Of their diyulging the secrets of
the shop. They can be trusted better
than can the ambitious male employees
not to give away points. Harpcr's
jeekiy.
Thomas NJ Davis of Milford has I
probably the oldest sleigh in De aware /
In 1879 his great-grandfather. Marx |
Davis, went TO Philadelphia and bought
a gig. The gig was used by one or
two generations of his descendants |
Recently it was changed into sleigh. |
and the gig body Of the last century is
identical in shape with the latest style
of the sleigh of 1887
Mrs. Mary A Maginnis, second !
daughter Of William NJ Tweed. died |
last week in New Orleans Her mar !
riage in 1871, Just before the downfall 1
of the Tweed ring. was a great society /
event in New York, and half million /
dollars worth of wedding presents was
displayed nj Tweed's gorgeously-f |
nished house at Fifth avenue and Forty !
second street.
Queen Margaret Of Italy. personally |
selects all the Christmas presents for
the servants and for the inmates Of her |
various charitable institutions. To 1
direct ner in this task she keeps a book /
in which she notes down such hints a 4
the colors Of their eyes and hair and |
other details. 50 that the dresses. etc.
she may get them viii be becoming.
John W. Steele. the original and only /
Coal OIL Johnny, IS not tramp in .
the depths Of poverty. as frequent news
paper paragraphs would have him, but
Is a respectable. solid citizen % Kearney,
where he lives with his wife and family.
He was young when ne got his sudden
wealth, but after brief period Of high !
living he saw ms mistake and settled
down ike a man.
Delicate diseases Of either sex. however
induced, speedily and radically cured. Ad-
dress, in confidence Worlds Dispsasary
Medical Association, Buffalo, \. Y.